Nothing is so unequal as equality.
PLINY THE ELDERMost men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
-
-
In wine, there’s truth.
PLINY THE ELDER -
It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
PLINY THE ELDER -
As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
PLINY THE ELDER -
Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
PLINY THE ELDER -
His only fault is that he has no fault.
PLINY THE ELDER -
Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
PLINY THE ELDER -
No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
PLINY THE ELDER -
The only certainty is uncertainty
PLINY THE ELDER -
Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
PLINY THE ELDER -
Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
PLINY THE ELDER -
On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
PLINY THE ELDER -
Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
PLINY THE ELDER -
The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
PLINY THE ELDER -
Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
PLINY THE ELDER -
The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
PLINY THE ELDER






